Synopsis
Two dimwitted buddies hatch a money-making scheme after discovering an overgrown fly in the boot of a car.
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Cast
- Grégoire LudigManu
- David MarsaisJean-Gab
- Adèle ExarchopoulosAgnès
- India HairCécile
- Bruno LochetGilles
- Coralie RussierSandrine
- Roméo ElvisSerge
- Thomas BlanchardGendarme 2
- Gaspard AugéAgent de sécu
- Marius ColucciGendarme 1
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
Perhaps we’re comedy-starved in today’s cinematic landscape, but Dupieux’s rollicking adventure generates rare laugh-out-loud moments and even a few applause-worthy bits. - 83
The Playlist
The really new news of Mandibles however, is, where in the past Dupieux’s surrealism always had a cynical, sinister, even murderous undercurrent, here, he lets himself be cheerful, as though infected by the sweet-natured bromance between his appealing, appalling idiot leads. - 80
Screen Daily
Mandibles is far from derivative, and Dupieux goes beyond the usual “Love you bro!” buddy-film clichés to draw something genuine, even heartwarming, out of the friendship between these two idiots. - 80
Variety
Mandibles is as brazenly and riotously stupid as it sounds, but with a chill, dopey sweetness that makes it stick. - 75
IndieWire
What makes Mandibules so refreshing is that, just as its anti-heroes don’t care about how they are supposed to behave, Dupieux has an airy disregard for how a chase thriller or a horror movie is supposed to proceed. - 75
Slant Magazine
The idle one-thing-after-another-ness of Mandibles is evocative, disturbing, and moving. - 75
Washington Post
Like his other films, this one takes an admittedly slender thread of an idea — one that would make a perfectly good premise for a four-minute comic sketch — and stretches it to almost the breaking point, and sometimes beyond, twisting and intertwining it with other nonsense along the way, just for the heck of it. - 67
The A.V. Club
If you seek something that coalesces in a satisfying way, this ain’t the auteur for you. If you long to be caught off guard, take a seat.
